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Cerebral Valley – Week of December 29th 🗓
Read about the latest in AI Events, News, our Open Roles, and more...
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Open Jobs
Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.
1) AI Engineer at Construction Automation Startup (SF)
- Building: AI agents for construction, “Harvey for real estate development”
- About: Backed by CEO of Blackstone & others • Harvard-founded • Clients include Tishman Speyer & premier real estate firms • Solving frontier geospatial AI problems
- Ideal candidate: Experience building production-ready agents • Python or typescript expertise • Strong preference for ex-founders or ex-founding engineers
2) Agent Engineer at AI Media Startup (SF)
- Building: Agentic media production platform, “Lovable for creatives”
- About: Well-funded preseed • Small but elite team of <5 • Founded by founder of Soundcloud and Dance • Founded raised $500m+ for previous companies
- Ideal candidate: Demonstrated experience in using LLMs in production & to build quickly • 4+ years of experience in professional software engineering at early stage startups • Hungry engineers willing to grind in-office with the team
3) Forward Deployed AI Engineer at AI Transformation Startup (SF / NYC)
- About: Large unannounced funding rounds • Founded by former tier 1 investment partner & big tech veterans • Building custom AI solutions for enterprise • Too much inbound to handle
- Ideal candidate: 2+ years experience in a forward deployed or AI engineering role • Expertise in Python, LLMs, & ML technique tradeoffs • Able to interact with customers & manage technical / non-technical stakeholders • Can leverage and advise on code productivity tools
If you’re interested in the above roles, please email [email protected] with your LinkedIn, resume, and why you think you’re the best fit. We’ll be in touch if there’s a match.
Events List
A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).
Featured in December:
🗓️ Saturday, January 10th
📍 San Francisco, CA
We all know the power of AI agents, and people are rapidly adopting them across industries. In a world of agents, how can they work together? Soon, we’ll need to orchestrate agents across platforms for unified goals.
Build with MongoDB and the best hackers in AI to enable agentic collaboration for the future, building tools, agents, and techniques to allow agents to communicate, share context, and work together to achieve ever more complex goals.
Winning teams will get over $25,000 in cash prizes 👀
🗓️ Thursday, January 15th
📍 San Francisco, CA
The Bay Area’s top AI founders are building what’s next, and MongoDB is bringing them together at our .local SF conference.
Join hundreds of founders, builders, and leaders from across the Bay Area startup ecosystem to learn how high-growth startups are moving from prototype to production, shipping faster with MongoDB, and unlocking new opportunities for growth.
This Week in SF:
🗓️ Thursday, January 1st
📍 San Francisco, CA
The Residency and Entrepreneurs First are hosting a small New Year mixer for founders, investors, and operators who want to start 2025 by meeting people they might actually work with.
🗓️ Friday, January 2nd
📍 San Francisco, CA
Build faster inside Unreal Engine 5 using AI-powered analysis. This is a hands-on Vibe Coding Night where we’ll use Cline and the Unreal Engine Analyzer (MPC Server) to explore, debug, and iterate on real UE5 projects — live.
Register
🗓️ Friday, January 2nd
📍 San Francisco, CA
Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring Strudel, a browser-based live coding language for making music with code.
This Week in NYC:
🗓️ Sunday, January 4th
📍 New York City, NY
Join us for a special discussion about the ethical dimension of artificial intelligence and its use in public education with writer and teacher Kelly Clancy, founder of Parents for AI Caution, and Christiana Zenner, Professor of Theology, Science, and Ethics at Fordham University.
Register
Planning an upcoming event? Submit an event to our AI Event Feature.
Final Note…
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